A little preliminary of the sort of thing you’re going to see in HARDCODED when it comes out in April
64% Of Psychology Turned Out To Be Garbage
The warning signs had been there for decades. People just weren’t listening......
...Nearly two-thirds of published findings—the research that shaped TED Talks and bestsellers and Jennifer’s Saturday brunches—couldn’t be reproduced when someone else tried.
Meehl and Ioannidis had called it. The field that studies human behavior discovered that most of what it “knew” about human behavior might be wrong.
As bad as it is in the field of psychology, it’s even worse in a number of other scientific fields. And the institutional incentives are such that it can only continue to get worse in all of them.
